The economist named ways to profitably purchase New Year's gifts

You can already start buying gifts for the New Year, and you can also set aside the required amount in order to purchase everything you need closer to the holiday. Candidate of Economic Sciences, financial analyst Mikhail Belyaev told about this on Friday, September 26.

At the same time, the expert noted that there is no need to hope for New Year's sales.

"You can approach this from two sides, but you can start now. Gradually buy some souvenirs so that you don't have to run around or, on the contrary, reserve money so that you can go and buy in the right direction," the economist said in an interview with Lenta.Ru .

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Earlier, on September 24, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved a decree defining the order of holidays and weekends for 2026. According to him, the New Year's weekend will last 12 days — from December 31, 2025 to January 11, 2026 inclusive, the Moscow City News Agency reports.

To extend the New Year holidays to 16 days, it is necessary to take a vacation on December 29 and 30, reports NSN.

Regional authorities may introduce additional non-working holidays, so the production calendar of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation sometimes differs from the federal one. These decisions are fixed by local regulations, it is specified on the website. kp.ru .

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